Neville's reading of the Bible's first symbol. Before God's first creative act he moved upon the face of the waters; Jeremiah has God calling himself the fountain of living waters, against which his people have hewn out broken cisterns that hold no water; and Proverbs 27:19 supplies the definition the other two need - as in water face answers to face, so the mind of man reflects the man. The emphasis he puts on it is exact: not the mind, the man. The mind is but a reflector, and what it reflects is the operant power looking into it. So moving upon the face of the waters is moving upon your own mind, and it is the whole of the technique - you look into the mirror of your own mind and hold there the concept you intend to be, and a mirror will not change an image, it will reflect it. The condition is stillness rather than effort: the twenty-third Psalm leads us beside still waters, and Neville insists still does not mean stagnant - it is alive and running, only steady enough to reflect. When the water is turbulent nothing can be seen in it, which is the state he describes in primitive man and in his own childhood; when it steadies, the man looking into it sees himself, and by the law that we become what we behold he cannot help becoming that. The complaint that society is unkind, or the boss cruel, is therefore read as a report from the mirror: they are only mirroring what he has set up in himself as a pattern, so let him reshuffle the deck and change the concept.